Wilhelm von Humboldt

In diesem Brief:

Personen

• Bancroft, George
• Barton, Benjamin Smith
• Cotton, Josiah
• Daggett, Herman
• Duponceau, Peter Stephen
• Edwards, Jonathan
• Eliot, John
• Everett, Alexander Hill
• Friedrich Wilhelm III., König von Preußen
• Heckewelder, Johann Gottlieb Ernst
• Humboldt, Alexander von
• Jarvis, Samuel Farmar
• Rasles, Sébastien
• Sagard-Théodat, Gabriel
• Schladen, Friedrich Heinrich Leopold von
• Smith, William Loughton
• Vater, Johann Severin
• Welles & Williams, Paris
• Williams, Roger
• Williams, Samuel
• Zeisberger, David

Werke

• Adelung, Johann Christoph / Vater, Johann Severin (1806–1817): Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten, 4 Bände, Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung
• Archaeologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of The American Antiquarian Society, Volume 1–7, 1820–1885
• Barton, Benjamin Smith (1798): New Views of the origin of the tribes and Nations of America, Philadelphia: John Bioren
• Cotton, Josiah / Pickering, John (1829): Vocabulary of the Massachussets (or Natick) Indian language, Cambridge: E. W. Metcalf and Company
• Duponceau, Peter Stephen (1819): Report of the Corresponding Secretary to the Committee, of his Progress in the Investigation committed to him of the General Character and Forms of the Languages of the American Indians. In: Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society 1, S. xvii–xlvi
• Edwards, Jonathan (1789): Observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians, London: W. Justins
• Eliot, John / Pickering, John / Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen / Davis, John (1822): A Grammar of the Massachusetts Indian Language, Boston: Phelps and Farnham
• Eliot, John (1663): Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God, Cambridge: Samuel Green
• Eliot, John (1666): The Indian Grammar begun: or, An essay to bring the Indian language into rules, for the help of such as desire to learn the same, for the furtherance of the Gospel among them, Cambridge: Marmaduke Johnson
• Heckewelder, John / Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen (1819): A Correspondence Between the Reverend John Heckwelder, of Bethlehem, and Peter S. Duponceau Esq. […] Respecting the Languages of the American Indians. In: Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society 1, S. 351–448
• Jarvis, Samuel Farmar (1820): A Discourse on the Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America, New York: C. Wiley & Co.
• Lieberkühn, Samuel / Zeisberger, David (1821): Elekup Nihillalquonk woak Pemauchsohalquonk Jesus Christ. The history of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: comprehending all that the four Evangelists have recorded concerning him; all their relations being brought together in one narration, so that no circumstance is omitted, but the inestimable history is continued in one series, in the very words of scripture. By the Rev. Samuel Lieberkuhn, M. A. Translated into the Delaware language by the Rev. David Zeisberger, Missionary of the United Brethren, New York: Daniel Fanshaw. – "Preface" datiert 1806
• North American Review, 1815–1940
• Pickering, John (1820): An essay on a uniform orthography for the Indian languages of North America, as published in the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge: University Press, Hilliard and Metcalf
• Pickering, John (1819): Languages of the American Indians. Rez. zu: 1. Report of the Corresponding Secretary (Peter S. Duponceau, Esq.) to the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, of his Progress in the Investigation of the General Character and Forms of the Languages of the American Indians [in: Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee]; und 2.: A Correspondence between the Rev. John Heckewelder, of Bethlehem, and Peter S. Duponceau, Esq. Corresponding Secretary to the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, respecting the Languages of the American Indians. Philadelphia, 1819. In: North American Review 9, June, S. 179–187
• Pickering, John (1820): [Rez.] Samuel Farmer Jarvis: A Discourse on the Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America. In: North American Review 11, July, S. 103–113
• Rasles, Sebastian / Pickering, John (1833): A Dictionary of the Abnaki Language, in North America; by Father Sebastian Rasles. With an Introductory Memoir and Notes by John Pickering. In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Memoirs, N.S. 1, S. 370–574
• Sagard, Gabriel (1632): Dictionnaire de la langve Hvronne, Necessaire à ceux qui n’ont intelligence d’icelle, & ont a traiter auec les Sauuages du pays, Paris: Denys Moreau
• Williams, Roger (1643): A Key into the Language of America: or, An help to the Language of the Natives in that part of America, called New England. Together, with briefe Observations of the Customs, Manners and Worships, &c. of the aforesaid Natives, in Peace and Warre, in Life and Death. On all which are added Spirituall Observations, Generall and Particular by the Author, London: Gregory Dexter
• Zeisberger, David (1806): Delaware Indian and English Spelling Book for the Schools of the Mission of the United Brethren, Philadelphia: Mary Cist

Sprachen

• Abenaki
• Algonkin
• Amerikanische Sprachen
• Cherokee
• Chickasaw
• Chocktaw
• Delaware
• Massachusett
• Mahican (Muhhekanew)
• Muscogee (Creek)
• Quechua
• Wyandot (Huron)

Handschrift

• Grundlage der Edition: Ehem. Preußische Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, gegenwärtig in der Jagiellonen-Bibliothek Krakau, Coll. ling. fol. 52, Bl. 5–16; Kopie: Boston, Public Library, MS q. 1900, No. 2, Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library/Rare Books